{"id":132231,"date":"2015-10-11T07:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T07:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/11\/likebeingunderwater-allthecanadianpolitics\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T03:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T03:59:38","slug":"likebeingunderwater-allthecanadianpolitics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/11\/likebeingunderwater-allthecanadianpolitics\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-132231 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/11\/likebeingunderwater-allthecanadianpolitics\/attachment\/132232\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nvy0qgvVT61tyv2j7o1_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nvy0qgvVT61tyv2j7o10_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tumblr_nvy0qgvVT61tyv2j7o10_640-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/likebeingunderwater.tumblr.com\/post\/130844898378\" target=\"_blank\">likebeingunderwater<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/allthecanadianpolitics.tumblr.com\/post\/130828973259\" target=\"_blank\">allthecanadianpolitics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/acreppylittlehand.tumblr.com\/post\/130815251553\" target=\"_blank\">acreppylittlehand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/allthecanadianpolitics.tumblr.com\/post\/130802456554\" target=\"_blank\">allthecanadianpolitics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It was announced today that before the Syrian refugee crisis exploded in the media (due to the drowning of a syrian boy), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/prime-ministers-office-ordered-halt-to-refugee-processing\/article26713562\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Harper had completely frozen refugee claims into Canada.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This commentary is so important. Harper has been playing defensive the whole time because he didn\u2019t want this story to come out (though he had been preparing for it), and now it has.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Please read this, please share this, this needs to be known. This is what our Prime Minister has been doing. This is what the man who is likely to be reelected has been doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt no my mind that he froze the system to stop Muslim refugees. The man is a paranoid, xenophobic <i>racist<\/i>\u00a0and the fact that he had been getting away with this is just disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>Please get out and vote on October 19, just please don\u2019t vote for this man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Its worse than that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/election\/pmo-sought-political-gain-in-prioritizing-certain-syrian-refugees-sources-1.2601028#_gus&amp;_gucid=&amp;_gup=twitter&amp;_gsc=6L7GCFS\" target=\"_blank\">As CTV\u2019s Robert Fife uncovered<\/a>, this freezing of refugees was done deliberately not only to screen out Muslims, but to favour other non-muslim religious minorities with the goal of politicizing them for this election:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sources tell CTV News that a temporary halt to the processing of some Syrian refugees was ordered earlier this year to make sure the types favoured by the Prime Minister\u2019s Office were being prioritized.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Citizenship and Immigration insiders<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/video?clipId=723517&amp;playlistId=1.2602357&amp;binId=1.810401&amp;playlistPageNum=1&amp;binPageNum=1\" target=\"_blank\"> told CTV\u2019s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife<\/a>\u00a0that PMO staff went through the files to ensure that persecuted religious minorities with established communities already in Canada \u2013 ones that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper could court for votes \u2013 were being accepted. <b>Insiders say PMO actively discouraged the department from accepting applications from Shia and Sunni Muslims.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>REMEMBER THAT ADVANCE VOTING STARTS THIS WEEKEND SO IF YOU CAN\u2019T MAKE IT OCTOBER 19TH GO THIS WEEKEND<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ereg.elections.ca\/CWelcome.aspx?lang=e\" target=\"_blank\">If you aren\u2019t sure if you\u2019re registered to vote, go here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.ca\/scripts\/vis\/FindED?L=e&amp;PAGEID=20\" target=\"_blank\">If you aren\u2019t sure where you go to vote, go here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>likebeingunderwater: allthecanadianpolitics: acreppylittlehand: allthecanadianpolitics: It was announced today that before the Syrian refugee crisis exploded in the media (due to the drowning of a syrian boy), Stephen Harper had completely frozen refugee claims into Canada. This commentary is so important. Harper has been playing defensive the whole time because he didn\u2019t want this story to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/11\/likebeingunderwater-allthecanadianpolitics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1430,15444,43,60,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132241,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132231\/revisions\/132241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}